We work closely with our members, the public health workforce and wider community to develop and implement a wide range of policy and projects to educate and empower individuals, effect change and celebrate excellence.

On our Families page, you will find information for use by families, such as links to what health visitors do, our walking groups for new parents called Ready Steady Mums, information on getting to know your baby and important online Sources of Support.

We are able to offer a range of contemporary training programmes and professional conferences to support the personal and professional development of practitioners. A wide range of e-learning can be found in our Health Visitors section.

At the Institute we are asked to contribute to health and social care policies that have the potential to impact on public health and health visiting.

We see this as a very important part of our work as it allows the Institute to provide a voice for health visiting and keep the work health visitors undertake, and the contribution they make to children, families and communities, high on the policy agenda.

We use every opportunity to raise the national profile of health visiting and the profession.

We will share information here on our activities in raising the national profile of health visiting.